323: Miss Val Retires, Inside Men's Doha Selection, and the MLT Debrief
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 26 September 2018
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
CONTEST
What: 5 winners get a copy of Miss Val's book: Life is Short, Don't Wait to Dance Grand Prize: Book and 15 minute personal phone call with Miss Val. How to Enter: Using the #DontWaitToDance on Twitter or Instagram tag us @GymCastic with a 5 second video doing your favorite UCLA floor choreography. Doesn't have to be you, use your dog, fingers, make a friend do it. Bonus entries: Link to the book. Enter as many times as you want. When: Now to October 5th *Conflict of Interest Disclaimer: Jessica's husband co-authored this book.
THE BIG STORIES
- Miss Val will retire after the 2019 season (3:30)
- Nostalgia for the age of larger-than-life coaches
- What does UCLA do now? And is it a knife fight for the head coach position?
- MLT interview - the aftermath (20:20)
- How Jessica feels about it now and why she never wants to do it again
- "This is a sense in which reconciliation can serve as a powerful force for societal healing. But at the same time, these negative consequences on the individual psyche are still there."
- Reactions, regrets, impressions, hopes, frustrations, and feedback
- What Jetter and her dad had to say
- Kensley attended US men's selection camp and has ALL THE SCOOPS (59:40)
- Mikulak, Moldauer, Yoder, Modi, and Van Wicklen will go to Doha
- Why Whittenburg was left off the national team
- Marvin Kimble drama-things
- Why Brett McClure is scared of the Olympic tour
- The trashy gym and mismatched equipment the US men have to use
MEET NEWS
- Pan American Championships (1:31:13)
- Dominance from the US women (duh)
- Grace McCallum's world championships chances
- Trinity Thomas makes history
- Don't sleep on Team Mexico
- JUSTICE FOR THE WOMEN OF CUBA
- The US men won with consistency
- Manrique was the Manrique of the meet
- Becky Downie is doing a 6.6 BARS ROUTINE
GYMTERNET NEWS (1:46:29)
- Ropes and Gray is delayed until the end of 2018
- Mary Lou Retton is on Dancing with the Stars
- ......
- Lobbied Senator Feinstein against the SafeSport bill
- Alyssa Beckerman with Inside Gym: "You hear a lot that Larry Nassar was a tumor on an otherwise perfect system and… NO! Larry preyed upon a broken system." Note to MLR
- FYI: World Championships is canceled
- Celine Van Gerner and Eythora Thorsdottir will not compete
- Bram Verhofstad didn't make the Dutch men's team
- Coline Devillard is out for France
- The Thema Williams trial has begun
- Peyton Ernst is retiring
- Stacey Ervin did a WWE something or other
FURTHER READING
US Men – World Championship Selection The Miss Val Show Pan American Championships – What Happened There?
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| 0:55.3 | Today, Kensley is back from Men's World Selection Camp in Colorado Springs. Thank you, club gym |
| 1:01.3 | nerd members. You made this trip possible. She will tell us what it was like and who is on the world team. |
| 1:06.4 | Miss Val announced that she's retiring next year. Trinity becomes the second US woman ever to win an |
| 1:12.0 | international medal while simultaneously on a college team. |
| 1:16.5 | This is episode 323 for September 26th, 2018 and welcome to the number |
| 1:23.0 | of the National National Podcast in the Galaxy. |
| 1:25.0 | I'm Jessica. |
| 1:26.0 | I'm here with Spencer from the Balance Beam situation, |
| 1:28.0 | and Kensley, who just came back from Colorado Springs, |
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